By MOLLY BECK
The State Journal-Register
Posted Feb 01, 2013
Only four miles lie between Lindsay Elementary School and the MacArthur Park Apartments, but that’s quite a trip without a car.
Since city buses don’t travel to Lindsay, either, school officials decided to take the school at 3600 Fielding Road to its 22 students who live in the apartment complex in the 2700 block of South MacArthur
Boulevard. Many of their parents do not have transportation.
And so, in Apartment 170, an educational outreach center was created with the help of complex manager Les Greer.
“A lot of parents don’t have transportation to get their children to and from night activities, so we didn’t want them to feel so left out,” said assistant principal Iola Jackson. “We wanted to take the school
out there.”
So far, the tiny branch of Lindsay School has about 500 books.
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